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        <h1>How to use Post Processing</h1>
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          <p>
            Many three.js applications render their 3D objects directly to the screen. Sometimes, however, you want to apply one or more graphical
            effects like Depth-Of-Field, Bloom, Film Grain or various types of Anti-aliasing. Post-processing is a widely used approach
            to implement such effects. First, the scene is rendered to a render target which represents a buffer in the video card's memory.
            In the next step one or more post-processing passes apply filters and effects to the image buffer before it is eventually rendered to
            the screen.
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            three.js provides a complete post-processing solution via `EffectComposer` to implement such a workflow.
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          <h2>Workflow</h2>
      
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            The first step in the process is to import all necessary files from the examples directory. The guide assumes you are using the official
            [link:https://www.npmjs.com/package/three npm package] of three.js. For our basic demo in this guide we need the following files.
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import { EffectComposer } from 'three/addons/postprocessing/EffectComposer.js';
import { RenderPass } from 'three/addons/postprocessing/RenderPass.js';
import { GlitchPass } from 'three/addons/postprocessing/GlitchPass.js';
import { OutputPass } from 'three/addons/postprocessing/OutputPass.js';
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            After all files are successfully imported, we can create our composer by passing in an instance of `WebGLRenderer`.
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const composer = new EffectComposer( renderer );
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            When using a composer, it's necessary to change the application's animation loop. Instead of calling the render method of
            `WebGLRenderer`, we now use the respective counterpart of `EffectComposer`.
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function animate() {

  requestAnimationFrame( animate );

  composer.render();

}
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            Our composer is now ready so it's possible to configure the chain of post-processing passes. These passes are responsible for creating
            the final visual output of the application. They are processed in order of their addition/insertion. In our example, the instance of `RenderPass`
            is executed first, then the instance of `GlitchPass` and finally `OutputPass`. The last enabled pass in the chain is automatically rendered to the screen. 
            The setup of the passes looks like so:
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const renderPass = new RenderPass( scene, camera );
composer.addPass( renderPass );

const glitchPass = new GlitchPass();
composer.addPass( glitchPass );

const outputPass = new OutputPass();
composer.addPass( outputPass );
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            `RenderPass` is normally placed at the beginning of the chain in order to provide the rendered scene as an input for the next post-processing step. In our case,
            `GlitchPass` is going to use these image data to apply a wild glitch effect. `OutputPass` is usually the last pass in the chain which performs sRGB color space conversion and tone mapping.
            Check out this [link:https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_postprocessing_glitch live example] to see it in action.
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          <h2>Built-in Passes</h2>
      
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            You can use a wide range of pre-defined post-processing passes provided by the engine. They are located in the
            [link:https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/tree/dev/examples/jsm/postprocessing postprocessing] directory.
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          <h2>Custom Passes</h2>
      
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            Sometimes you want to write a custom post-processing shader and include it into the chain of post-processing passes. For this scenario,
            you can utilize `ShaderPass`. After importing the file and your custom shader, you can use the following code to setup the pass.
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import { ShaderPass } from 'three/addons/postprocessing/ShaderPass.js';
import { LuminosityShader } from 'three/addons/shaders/LuminosityShader.js';

// later in your init routine

const luminosityPass = new ShaderPass( LuminosityShader );
composer.addPass( luminosityPass );
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            The repository provides a file called [link:https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/examples/jsm/shaders/CopyShader.js CopyShader] which is a
            good starting code for your own custom shader. `CopyShader` just copies the image contents of the `EffectComposer`'s read buffer
            to its write buffer without applying any effects.
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